Multiple Choice Chapter 23 Self-Quiz 2

. A major reason why international trade stalled in the early 1930s was

the nation's lack of raw materials.

a lack of skilled labor.

a complete stop in investment and commerce.

a serious lack of capital.

. Franklin D. Roosevelt first entered politics in 1910 as

a Democrat in the New York legislature.

an organizer in his cousin's Progressive Party.

a Republican challenging Woodrow Wilson.

an independent mayor of New York City.

. Why did millions of small savers rush to withdraw billions of dollars from their accounts between 1929 and 1933?

They needed cash for bigger purchases.

Unemployed, these savings kept them afloat.

Most Americans feared rapid inflation.

Deposits were uninsured and customers did not trust their banks.

. Which of the following measures passed during the first one hundred days of Roosevelt's New Deal administration?

Amended the Volstead Act

Social Security Act

Fair Labor Standards Act

Wagner Act

. Which of the following statements best assesses the success of the New Deal in ending the Great Depression?

Economic growth above 1.5 percent did not return to the nation until 1944.

Mass unemployment was virtually eliminated by 1935.

Deficit spending plunged the economy further into Depression by 1936.

Only the massive stimulus of wartime spending spurred full recovery.

. How many members did Huey Long's Share Our Wealth Clubs have across the nation at its height?

500,000

1 million

5 million

15 million

. The Rural Electrification Administration benefited millions of Americans because of farms had no electricity in 1935.

90%

50%

34%

74%

. Which of the following did the WPA not construct between 1935 and 1941?

1,050 airfields

3,300 sports stadiums

900 armories

5,056 bomb shelters

. How did the United Auto Workers force General Motors and Ford to accept their union in the winter of 1936â1937?

They staged sit-down strikes in Flint, Michigan.

They marched in a national moratorium in San Francisco.

They fought Chicago police on the streets and in plants.

They lobbied Congress and the president in Washington, DC.

. How was John Maynard Keynes' countercyclical deficit spending supposed to work in economic boom times?

by paying off public debt

by deregulating monopolies

by abolishing industrial unions

by cutting taxes on the rich

. Who was the German boxer faced by Joe Louis in 1936 and 1938?

Herman Goering

Max Schmeling

Heinrich Himmler

Lothar Matthaeus

. Who was the author of the nationally syndicated newspaper column "My Day" during the 1930s?

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

Herbert Hoover

Charles Lindbergh

. How did most African Americans vote in the 1936 election?

Democratic

Republican

Progressive

Socialist

. Why did the New Deal administration impose limits on mining, grazing, and farming on or around reservations?

to prevent Christian missionaries from encroaching on Indian cultures

to restrict resources for meat-packing monopolies

to limit the prosperity of "economic royalists"

to protect native tribal cultures on the reservations

. How did John Maynard Keynes respond to the economic downturn of 1937?

He took it as proof that the private economy had only partially recovered, and still required federal stimulus.

He dismissed it as a speculative manipulation of the stock market.

He was surprised since it did not square with his General Theory.

He defended the economic performance as satisfactory given the global situation.

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